{"id":157,"date":"2019-03-07T00:36:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T03:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brazilianwomensgroup.wordpress.com\/?page_id=157"},"modified":"2023-04-13T12:37:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T16:37:19","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.verdeamarelo.org\/bwg\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our story<\/p>\n<h1>About the group<\/h1>\n<p>The Brazilian Womens&#8217; Group (BWG) was created in 1995 by a group of Brazilian immigrant women of various backgrounds and occupations. <\/p>\n<p>The women hoped to make a difference in the Brazilian community by encouraging its members, particularly women, to stand up for their rights in the United States. <\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian Women\u2019s Group\u2019s Mission is to promote the empowerment of Brazilian women and the Brazilian community in the Boston area.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"918\" src=\"http:\/\/verdeamarelo.org\/bwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/staff.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/verdeamarelo.org\/bwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/staff.png 1024w, http:\/\/verdeamarelo.org\/bwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/staff-300x269.png 300w, http:\/\/verdeamarelo.org\/bwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/staff-768x689.png 768w, http:\/\/verdeamarelo.org\/bwg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/staff-13x12.png 13w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h2>Mission<\/h2>\n<p>The mission of the Brazilian Women\u2019s Group is to promote the empowerment of Brazilian women and the Brazilian community in the Boston area.<\/p>\n<h2>Polices<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>To participate in actions that value and promote respect for cultural differences;<\/li>\n<li>To support the work of entities that represent and work with the Brazilian community;<\/li>\n<li>To participate and support the fight for immigrants\u2019 organization, political awareness, and human rights;<\/li>\n<li>To promote community organizing and the development of community leadership;<\/li>\n<li>To fight against any and all forms of discrimination, prejudice, humiliation, and disrespect towards the Brazilian community, its culture and language;<\/li>\n<li>To promote the engagement of the Brazilian community with the American society, and with other community groups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Goals<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>To discuss the role of the Brazilian immigrant women in society;<\/li>\n<li>To provide support to the Brazilian families living in Greater Boston;<\/li>\n<li>To be an information vehicle to the community;<\/li>\n<li>To help the community in their search for solutions to their problems;<\/li>\n<li>To promote cultural activities for the community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>You can make a difference today!<\/h2>\n<p><strong>ENGAGE YOURSELF.<\/strong> YOUR CONTRIBUTION CAN TRANSFORM WOMEN\u2019S LIvEs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&#038;hosted_button_id=G4WKHMBTA6YBN&#038;source=url\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDonate<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our story About the group The Brazilian Womens&#8217; Group (BWG) was created in 1995 by a group of Brazilian immigrant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-157","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verdeamarelo.org\/bwg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verdeamarelo.org\/bwg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verdeamarelo.org\/bwg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verdeamarelo.org\/bwg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verdeamarelo.org\/bwg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.verdeamarelo.org\/bwg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3083,"href":"https:\/\/www.verdeamarelo.org\/bwg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157\/revisions\/3083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verdeamarelo.org\/bwg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}